Dream and real Life

How does one differentiate dream and real life ?? If one dies while dreaming in sleep, is there any chance for him to know that it wasn't reality, but a mere dream ?? If one wakes up after death, doesn't life look like dream ??
One may answer like this ... Dreams don't have links among them, in the sense, between y'day's dream and today's dream there may not be any relation at all & one won't be knowing the happenings of the earlier dream in today's dream, where as in life that's not the case, as we do remember what has happened y'day ! That means, when two states are related and latter state knowing about the ealier one, then these two are reals and the in between state is dream and vice-versa... If one agrees to this, after death when one wakes up in a new body, there will be neither apparent relation between the states before n after death nor knowledge of earlier life .. So, is life also a dream ?


(Questions raised while reading "Achanchalam", which means steadyness)

Deliver(y)ance

Sujatha, one of my dear friends is going to welcome a little new-comer very soon. May be this phase is a boon for womankind, though painful physically.
In everything they do, eating, sleeping, talking, walking and what not, there will be a mark of thought for the baby .. Whatever they do is intended for more comfort of the inside one ! The thoughts are fully occupied by the coming one.. One has to see the expression of a would-be mother when she feels the touch of tender limbs from inside .. Many a times i feel it's a nine-month Tapas !
The same stage from the view point of fetus inside ... Will it feel that there is somebody behind the protection and the energy supply which is making it grow day by day ? Does it know that there is a Biiiig world awaiting for it, outside this small little place full of darkness and fluids .. Can it imagine that once it comes out of this womb, it can see and feel the presense of The Mother who had taken care of it right from the beginning and can be along with Her for the remaining part of the life ??
No, i feel ... It doesn't know ! just like we are ignorant of the world of His Infinite Love.